Analysts say President Ruto’s friendliness with regional rebel groups positions Kenya as a country that ‘takes sides’.

Kenya has for many years played an important role in promoting peace and stability across Africa, especially in Sudan. As a regional powerhouse and a trusted mediator, Kenya has been at the forefront of conflict resolution efforts in Sudan and South Sudan.

Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of war-torn Sudan, traders and industry sources say, complicating Western companies' efforts to insulate their supply chains from the conflict.

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed Monica Achol Abel as the country’s ambassador to Kenya and as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to a decree issued on Wednesday. The announcement was made on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), though no specific reasons were provided for her removal.

The Kenyan President William Ruto has suspended the Tumaini Initiative talks between the South Sudan government and opposition groups until next month. Ruto said the suspension of the mediation talks came after a meeting held with delegations from both government of South Sudan and the hold-out opposition.

JUBA | Xinhua | Diplomats from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, on Wednesday expressed deep concern about the ongoing armed violence in Nasir County in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State.

South Sudan, Ethiopia — and now, perhaps, Kenya. Declan Walsh is the chief Africa correspondent for The Times based in Nairobi, Kenya. He previously reported from Cairo, covering the Middle East ...

Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she's raised from a seedling, searching anxiously for its first fruit buds since she planted it three years ago. When she grasps the small cherries, Bashiama beams.

The study, published in the journal BMJ Global Health in January, assessed cholera elimination attempts in the World Health Organization’s African region between 2018 and 2022. Since 2021, the region has faced “an acute upsurge” in cholera, the authors write.

Sudan's military-led government has recalled its ambassador from Kenya, in protest at Nairobi's hosting of meetings aimed at forming a rival Sudanese government backed by the Rapid Support Forces.

At least four people sustained gunshot wounds as police clashed with protesters in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, in the country's north. Thousands of refugees in the camp, which hosts people fleeing from conflict and drought in neighboring South Sudan,